:: IYA2009BLAST! reaches over 1 million viewers worldwide in 2009 through television broadcasts alone!

:: GriersonBLAST! is shortlisted for the 2009 Grierson Awards in the Best Science Documentary catagory.

:: NatureFilm-maker Paul Devlin followed his astrophysicist brother Mark’s team for 5 years as they attempted flights of the Balloon- borne, Large-Aperture, Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) in the Arctic and Antarctic.

:: Filmmaker Magazine Paul's article on the afterlife of BLAST! is the longest article ever published in the magazine ever!

:: Salem Gazette BLAST! "wins over audiences young and old" at the 2009 Salem Film Fest.

:: EyepieceEyepiece, the publication of the Amateur Astronomer's Association of New York, has a great write up about the BLAST science experiment and NYC theatrical premiere.

:: DOX Magazine Paul Devlin talks about the BLAST! ArtistShare project - what worked, what didn't work, and the future of independent film financing.

:: indieWireThe BLAST! theatrical premiere in New York City gets a shout out in indieWire.

:: Television Business International Distributor Louise Rosen says that the film has a number of different interesting angles, including the scientific exploration as well as the personal lives of the scientists as they battle to launch this telescope and keep their families happy.

:: Cork Film Festival In a documentary master class, director Paul Devlin guides participants through creative ways of independent filmmaking, from packaging the initial funding applications, to production, through to festivals, sales and exhibition strategy.

:: CUNY Science & the Arts BLAST! will take you to new heights while tiptoeing on the rim of disaster in the pursuit of scientific achievement.

:: Penn Arts & Sciences MagazineYou’re likely to find Mark Devlin crawling inside the frame of a car-sized telescope, soldering gun in hand, or standing on the windswept ice of Antarctica preparing to send that high-tech appliance to the very edge of space on a NASA balloon.

:: Philadelphia Inquirer "This is one of those big-impact things," said Ian Smail, an astronomer from Durham University in the north of England, "They're my competition, and this field is very cutthroat, but at some point you have to say they've done something pretty unique." --Ian Smail on the BLAST results

:: New Scientist BLAST! reveals "Dramatic dust-swaddled stellar nurseries [as the] main sources of a diffuse background light found in all directions"

:: Universe Today “BLAST! has given us a new view of the Universe,” said Barth Netterfield of the University of Toronto, the Canadian principal investigator for BLAST!, “enabling the BLAST! team to make discoveries in topics ranging from the formation of stars to the evolution of distant Galaxies.”